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HANDLE FOR SATGHELS, 8w. No. 265,125. Patentd Sept 26, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS MESSER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND SIMON ZINN, OF SAME PLACE.

HANDLE FOR SATCHELS, 86G.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters'latent No. 265,125, dated September 26, 1882.

Application filed August 12, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs Mnssnn, a citizen ot' the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Handles for Satchels, &c., of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the attachment of swinging handles to satchels, pocket-books, traveling-bags, and other similar articles; and it consists in combining with the frame having suitable apertures bearings for each end of the handle, the free ends of which bearings pass outwardly through the apertures for embracing or clasping the ends of the handles, and which are pivotally connected together.

It also consists in making the pivot-bearings of clips, the ends of which project outward through suitable holes in the satchelframe, and each of which is bent to form shoulders, resting on the outer surface of the frame, so that the clips are held to the frame, due to their shapes, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

This invention is illustrated in'the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is aside view, showing the handle applied to a satchel. Fig. 2 is a detail view, showing one end of the handle and concomitants. Fig. 3 is a plan View of a portion of the satchel-frame, showing its holes.

Similar'letters indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A designates the handle; B, its

caps; O, the pivots; D, the pivot-bearings,

and E the satchel-frame.

The handle A is made of leather or other suitable material, and the caps 13 are fitted snugly to its opposite ends, they being composed of sheet metal. The pivots 0 pass through the caps B, respectively, and the handle A--namely, those portions of the handle protected by the caps-as well as through the bearings D, in which latter they are confinedas, for example, being riveted; and it will be (No model.)

quired for this purpose, besides allowing the handle toswingin theusualmannerforbringing it to the desired positions. Each of the beariugs D is composed of a clip, as of sheet metal, the ends of which are projected outward through holes 1' in the satchel-frame, and which is bent to form shoulders 0, resting on theoutcr surface of the frame,'so that the clips bind or hug the frame, and no rivets or other: similar fastenings are required for keeping them in place, the ends or jaws of the clips being at the same time brought to the required positions for receiving the pivots. In the example shown the shoulders 0 are formed by bending the jaws of the clips toward each other; but, if desired, said jaws may be bent away from each other for this purpose.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with the-frame of the satchel, pocket-book, or analogous article having transverse apertures 11 t, the bearings for each end of the handle having their free ends passin goutwardly through theapertures,where they are bent toward each other in close proximity to the apertures to form shoulders, said free ends being connected directly with the handles by a'pivot-bearing, substantially as described.

2-. The bearings I), having their free ends projecting from the frame E, in combination with the handle A, and its end clips connedted with the free ends of the bearings by a -pivot, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' LOUIS MESSER. [L. 8.] Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

